This is a list of all cathedrals in Wales, both Anglican Church in Wales cathedrals, and most of the Roman Catholic cathedrals of the Metropolitan Province of Cardiff, excluding the province's former pro cathedral Belmont Abbey in Herefordshire, England, as part of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.
There are six dioceses of Wales with a Bishop for each diocese of the Church in Wales. The Archbishop of Wales is elected by the Electoral College from amongst the six Welsh diocesan bishops. The first Archbishop of Wales was enthroned in 1920.[1]
The Welsh Church Act 1914 caused the Church of England to be disestablished in Wales and Monmouthshire in 1920, and allowed the establishment of the Church in Wales and enthronement of the first Archbishop of Wales in the same year.[2][3][1] The act introduction states, "An Act to terminate the establishment of the Church of England in Wales and Monmouthshire, and to make provision in respect of the Temporalities thereof, and for other purposes in connection with the matters aforesaid."[4]
Cathedral Church of St Deiniol
Cathedral Church of St John the Evangelist
Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Paul, St Dyfrig, St Teilo and St Euddogwy
Cathedral Church of St Woolos
1949 as cathedral
Cathedral Church of St Asaph
Cathedral Church of St David
originally dedicated to St Andrew and St David
The Welsh and Herefordshire operations of the Catholic Church in England and Wales is divided into three dioceses; the Diocese of Wrexham, the Diocese of Menevia and the Archdiocese of Cardiff. Together these dioceses make up the Catholic Province of Cardiff.[5]
The Archdiocese of Cardiff includes 78 churches including Cardiff cathedral. 70 of these churches are in south east Wales and 8 churches in Herefordshire, England.[6] The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales is a permanent assembly of Catholic Bishops and Personal Ordinaries in the two member countries of Wales and England.[7]
Cathedral and Metropolitan Church of St David
Cathedral Church of St Joseph
Cathedral Church of Our Lady of Sorrows
pro-cathedral 1907–1987
Going by the Cathedral definition of seating a bishop this list includes St David's and St Asaph's attempt's to relocate to larger towns and also several early Celtic Catholic pre-congregational churches as well. Several of these are shrouded in mystery making it hard to figure out what's right and what's wrong
Saint Padarn's church
Proposed from 1920-1923
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
N/A
St Peter's Church
Saint Cynidr
Original dedication unknown
St Saeran's Church
St Cybi's Church
St Teilio's Church
St Margaret's Church
Several Churches in Wales have been called cathedrals by their locals even if the aren't they are the following:
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